This pair of open clusters has a Milky Way backdrop and they are surrounded by faint emission nebulosity. They can be found in the constellation Cygnus lying just underneath the Crescent nebula region. Image taken 19th August 2009 using the … Continue reading
Well – although it has been pouring with rain ALL day it looks like (on the satellite) there is a clear patch coming over for later tonight. As there is a 6-minute pass (that’s long!) of the ISS at 9:28 … Continue reading
As it was cloudy AND a bright Moon last night it was no good for deep-sky imaging – but as it wasn’t actually raining – and I could see a FEW stars, it was an opportunity to take the AstroTrac … Continue reading
I have no idea why I took this image of a galaxy group in Bootes on January 29th 2011. I also have no record of it in the logbook. I ran an astrometry check on it to find where it … Continue reading
My Algol and Rho Persei image is “Picture of the Week” on the My Astro Space web site – thanks guys 🙂
A double dataset was processed for this one. From 7th March 2011 27 subs at 10-minutes per sub, and from 13th March 36 subs at 5-minutes per sub. The odd shaped resulting image shows the overlap wasn’t too good between … Continue reading
Well – here’s that Starlight Xpress super customer service for you! Michael Hattey of Starlight Xpress drove my tested M26C camera down to the New Forest Observatory today – thank you Michael. Both M26C cameras are now back on the … Continue reading
Camera already at SX headquarters and Terry is giving it a good soak-testing. Can’t find any fault with it, but I know it does run (a lot) hotter than the other M26C – so Terry will be returning it with … Continue reading
I hadn’t realised that the First Light image I took with the mini-WASP was also this month’s IOM and was also my first APOD. Let’s hope this lot is a good omen for the future of the mini-WASP array 🙂
Just a single 2,000 second sub from one M26C camera – no processing other than brightening up so here’s the hot pixels, the polar rotation – the lot – in all its glory. But it’s my First Light 🙂
